The Kop can only be extended by maybe 1500 or so seats before reaching the maximum guideline distance from the pitch.
The investment (in bridging/ moving roads, the church, the Albert, new roof, raising structure) can be done but doesn't make it viable - especially as it will be as you say, all general admission.
I don't think anyone else would look at this differently.
The whole area has been part of a redevelopment programme for many years. Parts of this have come and gone but the commitments to regeneration remain and preparations are being made to resume the programme.
As has been discussed, the kop could be almost twice the capacity with safe standing but for not much extra income compared to the cost.
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Really interesting that Peter, and thanks for starting a thread on it, I've been toying with it for ages.
The figure of 1500 really surprised me. It made me wonder if there are grounds (not just in this country) where the viewing distance is further than the one Alan referenced in the other thread?
Again referring to the other thread and the interest/obsession with extending the Kop is not in just having a big capacity, for me personally it's about opening football up again, via a £10, £15, £20 ticket, to the demographic that football used to be all about.
The quality of view is important of course, but as a 13, 14 year old lad, how bothered are you going to be? I think there's an argument for getting people back in the ground. £40+ a ticket is going to kill it eventually. There won't be another generation coming through.
There isn't a perfect solution. There may not be a solution that makes sense to an owner like FSG, for whom the club is a financial investment. But a new owner with unlimited money? Or maybe even a tranche of shares offered to fans to facilitate something? What definitely isn't realistic now may suddenly become so.
There's a fair few people post on here with professional expertise, I'd be really interested in what we/they could come up with if we dream a little. Not to the extent of the stadium in a Space Jam, but maybe to what would be possible if we got that train station open and a rerouted Walton Breck road.